Trample, Splash, & Blast Damage: What's the difference? 

True. As a kid I didn't know what that meant

In German it's literally "Cataphracts devastate by riding down [enemies]". Again, zero mention of area damage. I always researched Logistica as a kid because I thought the description was cool, but never knew what the tech did.

I remember that, it was super cryptic at that time

10 year old me thought that they would just do damage by passing by

@@victorrenevaldiviasoto9728 When "just passing" is a human rights violation

It's technically not trample or blast. It's arguably splash, but in some RTS games, penetrating ammunition aren't considered splash damage. So maybe it could be argued it doesn't count, but given that even the Organ Gun made an appearance and it's very similar to the scorpion, us Scorpion fans ca rightfully cry.

Then SotL make another video regardng scorpion damage but forget to mention caravels.

They need a new upgrade to the Siege Scorpion

It's pass through damage. It would fit better with the scorpions and chakram thrower and ghulam.

Yes, you could see them in dracula Campain...

@@anghainguyen9951 or Hastings

@@anghainguyen9951 also in one of the asian campaings

Reminds me of WCIII unique building.

You didn't know? It's used in a fair number of scenarios, even in the base game i.e. without mods.

I was about to comment "Have you tried deleting the onager before the projectiles hit the ground?"

I had asked on the wikia why Druzhina was amended to exclude ranged infantry units in DE. Now I know!

Why do most units have 1000 base armour?

@@khankhomrad8855 It's greater than most attacks so that it cancels out bonus damages that don't apply to units. If a unit has +5 against cavalry, and the unit it's attacking doesn't have cavalry armor, then the base armor is used instead. So that's 5 - 1000, so the cavalry part of the attack doesn't contribute to the overall amount of damage dealt.

@@T-West So if Warwolf didn't give 100% accuracy, they would be doing damage to only 15% of the units? This applies to the case of only 1 enemy unit. So their treb war accuracy would have gone down from ~30% to actual 15%.

Glad I'm not the only one

Me too !

Idk why he ever stopped using that dope theme song...it was one of the coolest parts of his videos

I'm always ready to press skip 20 seconds when he says "let's check it out" because that's exactly how long the intro song is. I had to stop myself at the last moment when it didn't happen.

Yes! I felt that xD

whats the tasing discord been up to?

Love your videos amigo

It's nice to see you here too!

aye love your vids, even tho I have the game myself (lol), I just love watching them

In a 1v1, it looks like the main way it checks is to see if it has less than thirty pop, you have more than twenty-four pop, and you have three times the pop it does. The actual check is a little more complicated than that due to the limitations of the scripting language, but that's the gist of it. If you don't have more than thirty pop, then it waits until every last villager and monk is killed and it has a pop of one or less and all of it's town centers, docks, monasteries, and markets are destroyed and it has no pop headroom.

It abdicates when the nearby boars grunted too loudly and frequently, or when the townsfolk began too close to my kingdom's Town Center, or when Far too many birds flew over mine kingdom

I thought this was A VERY unfortunate Arabic name to be understood in English. Al Abdicate - leader of the ... caliphate, has left the match.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 true af lmfao

same. and i dont even play aoe2

Age of Empires damage

@@MerMes16 yes

That'd just be even more confusing, since they don't all work the same.

@@ArawnOfAnnwn joke

@@ArawnOfAnnwn ____________ The Joke________/ your Head \_____

Bruh you couldn't have even watched the video yet

Lol I was about to say the same thing but didn't cuz i didn't even finish the vid.

thank you mlchaelz. now i know you know he difference is between trample, spash, & blast damage is in Age of Empires 2. thanks

Isnt that considered pierce damage?

@@andrei.deniz22 It's a unique version of the elephants splash damage: it does the damage in a line instead of a circular radious.

Yes because torsion engine also affected scorpion which means it does blast damage.

Same! What happened?

@@TheHUEZOX no clue...one day it just vanished

Very sad

@@sandutheodor9398 :(

I dont, good riddance

Maybe but keep in mind its not just the cost of the unit theres also Upgrades production speed but most importantly the fact that they are a castle unit making their up Front cost higher and their rate of production slower

*All fires. Fire ships have 0% accuracy, and therefore the fire damages the first thing it hits. That is why a villager can wall out the fire ship, because the fire his the wall before the villager. T-west tought me.

Is that when the elephant sits on someone?

@@greywolf7577 , No... it's when Boats Keelhaul enemy units.

This comment needs more exposure.

AoE damage in the AoE2, from the game series AoE, where Ethiopian units say "AoE"

Ask T-west. He is the master of programming quarks

oh, you mean the exploit where deleting your mangonel after it fires causes the splash from any of its unresolved missiles to hit at 100% damage? yeah, it would be interesting to know if the same trick worked with other units (i'm guessing "no" in the case of units with melee splash attacks, since they need to be alive in the instant where the attack is resolved)

Deleting an SO with multiple torsion engine (with 256x mod) can probably destroy half the map.

Siege onagers +normal or special archers (especially longbow men) + spear units at the back are practically gamebreaking unless you can mass enough bombard cannons to destroy the onagers. Especially for maps like Amazon Tunnel where you cannot flank your enemy.

Replying so I can also find out the answer

Bombard cannons and micro to snipe the mangonels is a good call, usually back up by your own halbs and pikes, maybe with some archers to make it harder for them to take you on. Not all civs get bombard though. If you're in the open and not in a choke point, some hussars or light cav looped around the long way to reach the mangonels from behind isn't a terrible idea, but you need to have something to distract your opponent's pikes in the front, maybe your own pikes or skirms, and you need to be prepared to either micro your cav out of there if your opponents reacts well, or be prepared to probably lose them if you can close the gap. You can use heavy cav for this, but it's far more expensive and thus more costly if you mess up. If you're in imperial and you get block printing and redemption, you can sometimes manage to convert a few mangonels from distance, especially if you're on the defensive and can place your monks near a castle or TC or tower or similar. If you have very good micro, you can use archers to hit the mangonels from a distance, retreat and hit the pursuing pikes, but again, it's costly if you make a mistake. Cav archers are a little easier, but they take a lot more damage from the pikes if you're not fast enough to get away. Of course, this gets very hard if your opponent makes too many mangonels for you to dodge and shoot effectively. Obviously, there are plenty of civ-specific counters, like mass longbowmen, who, when microed even slightly, demolish this combo, or carefully microed mangudai, but what I usually have most luck with is just pushing forward with castles, since mangonels cannot deal with castle fire, nor can pikes. Not always easy to afford a castle, but it's my most reliable way to put a stop to a pike and mangonel push, more than any other option I've offered.

@@Paticula1135 I loved this detailed reply and very much appreciate it. i've only just started and have a 600 rank atm cos i came from aoe3 and there is plenty of carry over. This was the one combo that was causing me grief to try and wrap my head around. Another thing that kinda works is mass swordsman in spaced formation with some cav sent in from behind. But i think your castle idea is the correct hard counter even though it isn't a military unit. The combo is very slow moving so it's easy to just block it with a castle and it leaves it dead on the field and easy to just avoid.

actually man i just thought of it. a mango archer combo should work. trade your mangos for his and let the archers finish the pikes. That's it i think